I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.

When you got a demand issue it's hard to imagine the stock market at an all-time high.

Focus comes from a promise of the future, and therefore the strength and longevity of your focus will seldom exceed the strength of your purpose, vision, dreams or goal.

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

Subsidize... or lend.